2006-12-16
Original: 2006-12-16 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
A man with reddish-brown hair, wearing an orange shirt and blue shorts, stands writing at a green chalkboard mounted on a brown wall. On the board are mathematical expressions including "y =", "d f(x)", a summation symbol, and "f(x,y)".
Man: MY GOD! IT'S EXACTLY THE SAME!
Caption (below panel):
Much to his amazement, after taking the differential of the coefficient, Professor Werner discovers he is still a virgin.
Votey:
Handwritten title at top: "Reading this 9 years later..."
A bearded man with a downcast, weary expression.
Man: Caption makes no sense.
A man with reddish-brown hair, wearing an orange shirt and blue shorts, stands writing at a green chalkboard mounted on a brown wall. On the board are mathematical expressions including "y =", "d f(x)", a summation symbol, and "f(x,y)".
Man: MY GOD! IT'S EXACTLY THE SAME!
Caption (below panel):
Much to his amazement, after taking the differential of the coefficient, Professor Werner discovers he is still a virgin.
Votey:
Handwritten title at top: "Reading this 9 years later..."
A bearded man with a downcast, weary expression.
Man: Caption makes no sense.
Alt text
Main comic (single panel): A man with reddish-brown hair in an orange shirt and blue shorts stands at a green chalkboard covered in math symbols (a summation, derivatives, f(x,y)), exclaiming in a speech bubble, "MY GOD! IT'S EXACTLY THE SAME!" A caption below reads: "Much to his amazement, after taking the differential of the coefficient, Professor Werner discovers he is still a virgin." The joke is the absurd, deadpan non-sequitur of a triumphant mathematical discovery yielding a humiliating personal result. Votey (aftercomic, hand-drawn): titled "Reading this 9 years later...", a weary bearded man looks down dejectedly and says, "Caption makes no sense." The author admits, years on, that the original caption's punchline doesn't actually land.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.